Jerry Garcia plays with his back to the massive crowd at the Grateful Dead's last free Haight Street Fair concert in San Francisco on March 3, 1968.
The Grateful Dead played a free show on their now legendary flat bed truck as part of the Haight Street Fair. Jim Marshall was there and captured many photographs that day, several of which were included in the
Live Dead album sleeve artwork.
The following day Jerry Carroll described the event for the
San Francisco Chronicle saying, "A four-block stretch of fabled Haight Street yesterday was voluntarily surrendered to thousands of hippies and hippie-watchers. And the hippies did what they do best; they transformed the street into a sunny arcade of pleasure, celebrating the now with unqualified exuberance. The Grateful Dead’s full-throated roar drowned out a monotonous burglar alarm at one end of the street; the Tracy’s Coffee and Doughnuts people rolled their jukebox out on the sidewalk; and countless trios and quartets formed and dissolved in between."
The Unseen Grateful Dead Series
This photograph is a brand new limited edition from Jim Marshall's estate, celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Grateful Dead and the release of the new book
The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall: Photos and Stories from the Formative Years, 1966–1977, (Chronicle Books, 2025).
Release Notes:
This is a Limited Edition
Estate Photograph produced by Jim Marshall Photography LLC in one size only. Each Estate edition is carefully selected from Jim's massive personal archive of over 1 million negatives. There is intentionally no crossover with any previously available photographs that Jim produced during his lifetime.
Collector's Notes:
Jim Marshall's Estate Photographs are printed to order in San Francisco.
Each museum-quality photograph will be hand-numbered, and bears the official estate seal on the reverse.
Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
Buyers will also receive a certificate of authenticity following delivery.
Please contact us with questions!